Ilovestake2019 Posted August 19, 2019 #1 Posted August 19, 2019 The only amount that I ever borrow is $20. That way it doesn't become a problem and I can easily pay it back when my check comes. If I were to get more, I would get myself in deep doodoo. What about you?
420burning420 Posted August 19, 2019 #2 Posted August 19, 2019 Me too bro I borrow $50 on my friend but after I win I'll pay it $55
wngo123 Posted August 19, 2019 #3 Posted August 19, 2019 Quote The only amount that I ever borrow is $20. That way it doesn't become a problem and I can easily pay it back when my check comes. If I were to get more, I would get myself in deep doodoo. What about you? Absolutely not and I will never do that. The only exception would be to borrow cryptocurrencies from someone while waiting for your own deposit. Borrowing money for gambling is the worst thing ever, the worst decision. I do not recommend anyone even starting with small amounts because with small amounts probably it will be easy to cover the loses but this would encourage you to borrow higher amounts. People who borrow money for gambling sooner or later will end up in huge debts. Why making your life difficult? Just gamble with what you can afford.
sheenazbay Posted August 20, 2019 #4 Posted August 20, 2019 I have never played with borrowed money, nor have I at a casino stake, even though I don't have a balance, I have never borrowed a balance from another user
StoneDragon Posted August 20, 2019 #5 Posted August 20, 2019 80dollars maybe, Here comes the game with a friend helping a friend's situation, or as they say hand wash hand🤣
wowa24 Posted August 20, 2019 #6 Posted August 20, 2019 I have never occupied and do not plan, if only there will be a difficult life situation, and even more so to take on gambling, it is very not smart and I will never do that and I do not advise you
jinz Posted August 20, 2019 #7 Posted August 20, 2019 Once I thought of borrowing some money in an app that lends money which is so popular now in my country so I can try to recover some of my losses but I didn't push through the idea when I was about to register. Thinking about losing more money and having a debt because of gambling scares me. Until now I haven't borrowed money just to use it in gambling.
Enzo Posted August 20, 2019 #8 Posted August 20, 2019 I don't like borrowing to people or from people. Especially if it's for gambling. I know that gambling is not a guaranteed win so I would never loan someone who's chances of completely losing it are somewhat decent.
SLFJ Posted August 20, 2019 #9 Posted August 20, 2019 Yeah, did it like twice, with very less amounts so that I can payback like nothing, gave it back too. It was a pretty bad idea, because when you come onto the casino it's best when you don't have loans and stuff. Kind regards, slfj.
krystal Posted August 20, 2019 #10 Posted August 20, 2019 Never did, and not planning on doing so. It seems like a really stupid thing to do. 👽👽
Steffie Posted August 20, 2019 #11 Posted August 20, 2019 Like Enzo I don't like borrowing and hope I will not have to. Not for gambling anyway
chankhoreID Posted August 20, 2019 #12 Posted August 20, 2019 I have never borrowed money to play for the championship because the risk is very high if we don't have a guarantee to repay the loan. let alone using my salary never at all. I play using more money for example I have a business or an investment that makes a profit then I will use the money from that profit and I will never play with borrowed money because if we lose and there is no guarantee to return it then we will instead have problems that even more serious.
cukup2 Posted August 20, 2019 #13 Posted August 20, 2019 I once borrowed up to $ 150 and at that time I even destroyed it in a few minutes and it really hit me and until now I no longer dare to borrow more than $ 5 to play gambling because when losing will be very painful
Kippo Posted August 20, 2019 #14 Posted August 20, 2019 This is the main thing which will lead you into problems with gambling. Since you know that gambling has both wins or lose situation, you should be always gambling with the money you can afford to lose. And the house edge of the gambling is making the site can be more wins in technically. Example, you only 49.5% chance to win for 2x payout in dice, the site has 50.5% more than yours.
markoloko Posted August 20, 2019 #15 Posted August 20, 2019 15 hours ago, Ilovestake2019 said: The only amount that I ever borrow is $20. That way it doesn't become a problem and I can easily pay it back when my check comes. If I were to get more, I would get myself in deep doodoo. What about you? i always do it, especially when theres funeral in our place, coz we ahve lot of gambling if theres a funeral so i ahve to borrow big money for the capital, and i give it back same day with 10% interest, that is why peopl love to lend me money,
parzival777 Posted August 20, 2019 #16 Posted August 20, 2019 Nope, borrowing money will just make it worst when u play gambling. It doesn’t mean when u borrow money u will win in gambling. It takes some luck too! So yeah, if ever u fail with that money, u will be now in debts and if u happen to borrow again on the other person, and fail. It will be depressing because u have now a lot of debts and you cant pay them easily.
StakePay Posted August 20, 2019 #17 Posted August 20, 2019 If we borrowing money for Gambling then probably its worst decision of our life. Even i had take some amount like 150$ in last year from friend for gambling. what happen i busted same. and worst time of my life started from that time. same thing continues till approx 1 year. i became down around 1000$ in one year. Later i realize i m doing gambling in wrong way . i m aware i can make money with gambling but we need to do this thing with proper plan, target and withdrawals in some intervals. From last 3 month i m doing well and get profit of 600$ using my plan. (250 $ in last week) Hope i continue earning with same plan for long time. Wish u all good gambling sessions.
Burgerwcheese Posted August 20, 2019 #18 Posted August 20, 2019 Many gambling addiction stories start out innocently enough—a trip to the casino here or there, a few good wins, then a loss or two. Then something happens. The same chemicals in the brain that cause a person to become addicted to alcohol or drugs soon start to react to the act of gambling in a similar way. A person feels a “rush” when he or she gambles, and because of this desire to experience the same rush again and again, starts to lost control over how much time or money he or she is spending on the ‘hobby’. Gambling Addiction Horror Many people have a hard time understanding how or why people develop gambling addictions in the first place until they are caught smack dab in the middle of their own gambling addiction horror story. These are some personal stories about the strife, turmoil, and devastation that gambling has caused for gambling addicts and their families. Mary’s struggle with gambling Mary started off playing the slots as a way to relieve stress, to have fun. Eventually, though, she found herself going to the casino three or four times a week, losing hundreds of dollars with each trip. She wanted to stop, but by this time, Mary says she was “on auto-pilot.” Before she knew it, she no longer had the ability to control how much time she spent at the casino or how much money she was spending on her gambling habit. Once she ran out of money, she took out cash advances on her credit cards. But that money went to the machines as well and she found herself unable to make any credit card payments, let alone payments to make up for the cash advances. With no money left and without the use of her credit cards, Mary successfully stopped gambling for eight or nine months. But as she will tell you, “That was only because I didn’t have access to any money.” Once she got back on her feet and things were looking up again, her curiosity got the best of her and led her back to the casino “just to see what would happen.” Within four days, she had overdrawn her bank account, causing the bank to close it out. After that, she began “borrowing” funds from the company to which she was president and chief executive. Since her eyes were the only ones to see what went in and out of the account, she figured she would take some here and there, and pay the amounts back when she could, all without anyone knowing. It didn’t take long for her to borrow more than she could repay. Don’s sports gambling addiction— personal stories about a broken marriage and tainted childhood memories January 3, 1983, will forever be ingrained in Dianne’s mind as the night her husband, Don, started their family down a long and winding path of deceit, disappointment, and disaster. That Monday night, the Minnesota Vikings were playing the Dallas Cowboys. Don had placed $1,500 bet on the game…and lost. After that game, it wasn’t long before Don’s debts began to pile up and reach unmanageable levels. As Don explained to his children that their video cassette player was broken—and that’s why the men were here to take it back— he was only telling the first of what was to be many lies in order to conceal his gambling addiction from his children. They eventually found out anyway. Don’s betting expanded to more than just football. Soon, he had his own bookie. “I bet every day of the year except the Monday and Wednesday before and after the baseball all-star game, the only two days of the year when there was no sports betting,” says Don. When Don’s bookie was the focus of a police raid, federal agents showed up at Dianne and Don’s home. This was a wake-up call for the family; it told them that Dad’s sports gambling addiction was worse than they had imagined. Dianne packed up the kids and left the house. Seeing an empty house made Don think he was ready to quit betting. In 1986, he began to attend Gambler’s Anonymous meetings and convinced Dianne he was done with it all. Dianne questioned his resolve when she found a piece of paper with a list of football games one night when they were on vacation. He told her that they were old games—he didn’t gamble anymore. After minimal research, she realized the schedule was for the current season. Don controlled the family’s finances, and so, could get away with numerous tricks and sneaky behaviors that would have not only been met with disapproval by his wife but were illegal. He forged his wife’s signature to take out loans to pay off gambling debts. Don learned how to kite checks between three different checking accounts, essentially loaning himself large amounts of money interest-free by writing bad checks between the accounts, and then clearing the checks with more bad checks, and so on and so forth. Don found himself visiting one banker or another on a daily basis. “I could at least relax on the weekends when the banks were closed,” he says. Don rushed home from work daily to beat the mailman to the house in fear that his wife would see any bank statements. Eight years after his first GA meeting, Don canceled plans with a friend and got his shift covered at work covered so he could stay at a casino. When Dianne didn’t get Don’s afternoon call (which came every day like clockwork), she knew something was wrong. When Don finally called, he asked if she would mind if he cashed in another $100 check. She told him, “Do whatever you want, stay as long as you want, I don’t care.” She felt too defeated to argue it anymore. When Don came home late that night, the bedroom door was locked. He knew he had screwed up bad. Because of all the pain he had caused the family, every broken promise big or small, his daughter refused to let Don attend her graduation or her wedding. Anyone who says ‘gambling isn’t a deadly addiction’ doesn’t know this story Many gambling addict stories end with mountains of debt, broken marriages, and lost opportunities. The story of Jihad Hassan Moukalled of Farmington Hills, Michigan has a much more tragic ending than all of these things combined. H. Moukalled had amassed more than $60,000 in credit card debt and had caused his own printing company to sink deep into debt, once mentioning to a neighbor that the business was more than $500,000 under. Over the course of two years, Moukalled had been making weekly trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City to gamble large sums of money. After returning from a three-day trip one November night, Moukalled wrote out a suicide note, and placed it on the kitchen table, held down by salt and pepper shakers. The note read: “I never ever had a bad intent toward anyone. I think that I was gripped by the hope of ‘one more shot.’ I did not know how else to escape what I got myself into. It is over.” He then proceeded to suffocate each of this three children—daughter Aya, 7; son Adam, 5; and daughter Lila, 2—as they slept in their beds. Afterwards he shot his wife, and then himself. Apparently, at some point during his most recent trip, he had asked his company to deposit $85,000 into a bank account, hoping he could transfer the amount to a Vegas casino. The bank wouldn’t honor the check. Even if the bank had taken the check from a company that was already more than $500,000 in debt, it wouldn’t have covered eveb half of the $225,000 in torn-up casino markers that police found in Moukalled’s home during the investigation of this gruesome murder-suicide. Gambling Addict Stories—Admitting there is a problem Randy reaches for help with his gambling addiction “Approximately ten years ago I wrote a short story about myself entitled “The Bobber. Yes, that was me just bobbing along in all directions in the middle of an endless ocean. I kept a vigilant lookout, hoping that someone would save me by throwing me a lifeline. All those lines out there and none of them were close enough to grab onto. I was really tired after years of bobbing along and began looking forward to when I would eventually begin to sink into total emptiness. My writing cried out for help, but no one heard it… “Since being in recovery for a number of years, I’ve heard similar stories. Not knowing exactly where we were supposed to be and who we really were. Today I’ve just learned to accept that I am where I am supposed to be, one day at a time and doing the next right thing. As for those “recovery lines” … well, I found out that you actually have to swim out to get them and grab onto them. They don’t necessarily come to you. But once you grab them, never let go.” — Randy Mary resolves to come clean about her gambling addiction Mary sat in her car outside the casino, contemplating her situation, fighting the urge to go in and find a chair. Gambling had become an ‘emotional chore’ for Mary; something she felt she had to do because she knew she had to do something to try to get back all the money she had lost. Then she started to look at the bigger picture. She thought about her future: “I was so scared that I was going to end up doing this for another 20 or 30 years. I was scared that I was going to get fired from my job. I was scared that I was going to end up in jail.” As much as she wanted to, and as easy as it would have been for her to get out of her car and walk across the parking lot and into the casino, she didn’t. Mary started the engine, backed out of her parking space, and drove straight to her work. Again, she was apprehensive. Mary says, “I didn’t want to admit I was a compulsive gambler. I didn’t want to say it out loud. It’s hard to admit you’re a liar and a cheat and a thief.” But that’s exactly what she did. She told her business partner everything that had been going on. Don realizes he’s lost his family to his gambling addiction The night after coming home from his trip to the casino—after his wife told him she didn’t care what he did anymore—morning came and went, and the following night Don went back to Gambler’s Anonymous. The previous night would be the last time Don ever gambled. Gambling Addiction Stories that End with Recovery Mary gets a second chance to reclaim her life, her job, and her self-respect With the support of her company, Mary decided to attend a Gambler’s Anonymous meeting. As she looked around the room, she had a hard time believing that any of the people there had ever been compulsive gamblers, simply because they all looked so happy. She acquired a sponsor, but it soon became clear to her that she was going to need more than a few nights each week at Gambler’s Anonymous meetings to get herself back on track. Mary checked herself into a 30-day rehab program in Canton, South Dakota, which she says saved her life. In being surrounded by recovery addicts in GA and in the treatment center, Mary realized she wasn’t alone in her struggle. “I kept thinking I was something special, that my situation was unique,” Mary says. “But I wasn’t, and it wasn’t.” After completing her inpatient rehabilitation program, Mary returned home to Minnesota and continued to attend GA meetings as a part of her aftercare program. She also went to go face her old co-workers; almost immediately after coming home, Mary went to meet with her company’s board of directors. Mary was absolutely terrified. “These were people I had lied to and had manipulated…but they gave me a second chance.” Mary has slowly started to pay back what she stole from the company to prove her commitment to both her job and her recovery. After 18 months of being in recovery, Mary still attends GA meetings a couple times each week. She says having recovering people in her life helps her to stay on track because she knows she’s not alone. Vern finds help for his gambling addiction in rehab “I’m a compulsive gambler. That was difficult to admit when I attended my first GA meeting. But it was even more difficult after I had relapsed. “I had stopped gambling for more than three years when I succumbed again to the compulsion of gambling. It was at this time that I knew I needed more than a weekly GA meeting to get me on the road [to] recovery. I searched the web for places that concentrated on compulsive gambling and found Williamsville Wellness. I contacted the center, and Bob called me. With his encouragement, I applied and have never been sorry. “Apprehensive at first, I was welcomed by the staff and other compulsive gamblers throughout the four weeks I was there. Bob’s staff is incredible—top shelf all the way. They challenged me, listened to me, guided me and encouraged me to see the true inner self and the possibilities that had been hidden by my own behavioral patterns and compulsive gambling. Today I am on my road of recovery, thanks to the staff at Williamsville Wellness. What I gained there was worth the time, the financial investment, and the work to get me back on track. — Vern Don’s journey to redemption in recovery for his gambling addiction Don has been religiously attending GA meetings ever since his turnaround. Don has done a lot of work to gain back his family’s trust. He has even reconciled with his daughter, who banned him from having anything to do with her early adult life. Even 17 years into his recovery, Dianne still cringes internally when she sees Don flip through games on the television because she still remembers with clarity the days when her husband would be checking the scores of games he’d bet on. After years of GA meetings and marriage counseling, Dianne and Don have gradually repaired their relationship. Don is thankful that GA helped him to get over his gambling addiction, and overcome it at an age where he will still be able to repay his debts, and hopefully start some sort of savings account. A former gambling addict with a savings account—what a beautiful picture. Vi
CntryBoy Posted August 20, 2019 #19 Posted August 20, 2019 I have in the past, but very small amounts like $10. I won't do it anymore though as it can lead to problems. I really only did it back then to cover me until my deposit confirmed when blockchain was backed up.
Vlademore Posted August 20, 2019 #20 Posted August 20, 2019 40 minutes ago, Burgerwcheese said: Many gambling addiction stories start out innocently enough—a trip to the casino here or there, a few good wins, then a loss or two. Then something happens. The same chemicals in the brain that cause a person to become addicted to alcohol or drugs soon start to react to the act of gambling in a similar way. A person feels a “rush” when he or she gambles, and because of this desire to experience the same rush again and again, starts to lost control over how much time or money he or she is spending on the ‘hobby’. Gambling Addiction Horror Many people have a hard time understanding how or why people develop gambling addictions in the first place until they are caught smack dab in the middle of their own gambling addiction horror story. These are some personal stories about the strife, turmoil, and devastation that gambling has caused for gambling addicts and their families. Mary’s struggle with gambling Mary started off playing the slots as a way to relieve stress, to have fun. Eventually, though, she found herself going to the casino three or four times a week, losing hundreds of dollars with each trip. She wanted to stop, but by this time, Mary says she was “on auto-pilot.” Before she knew it, she no longer had the ability to control how much time she spent at the casino or how much money she was spending on her gambling habit. Once she ran out of money, she took out cash advances on her credit cards. But that money went to the machines as well and she found herself unable to make any credit card payments, let alone payments to make up for the cash advances. With no money left and without the use of her credit cards, Mary successfully stopped gambling for eight or nine months. But as she will tell you, “That was only because I didn’t have access to any money.” Once she got back on her feet and things were looking up again, her curiosity got the best of her and led her back to the casino “just to see what would happen.” Within four days, she had overdrawn her bank account, causing the bank to close it out. After that, she began “borrowing” funds from the company to which she was president and chief executive. Since her eyes were the only ones to see what went in and out of the account, she figured she would take some here and there, and pay the amounts back when she could, all without anyone knowing. It didn’t take long for her to borrow more than she could repay. Don’s sports gambling addiction— personal stories about a broken marriage and tainted childhood memories January 3, 1983, will forever be ingrained in Dianne’s mind as the night her husband, Don, started their family down a long and winding path of deceit, disappointment, and disaster. That Monday night, the Minnesota Vikings were playing the Dallas Cowboys. Don had placed $1,500 bet on the game…and lost. After that game, it wasn’t long before Don’s debts began to pile up and reach unmanageable levels. As Don explained to his children that their video cassette player was broken—and that’s why the men were here to take it back— he was only telling the first of what was to be many lies in order to conceal his gambling addiction from his children. They eventually found out anyway. Don’s betting expanded to more than just football. Soon, he had his own bookie. “I bet every day of the year except the Monday and Wednesday before and after the baseball all-star game, the only two days of the year when there was no sports betting,” says Don. When Don’s bookie was the focus of a police raid, federal agents showed up at Dianne and Don’s home. This was a wake-up call for the family; it told them that Dad’s sports gambling addiction was worse than they had imagined. Dianne packed up the kids and left the house. Seeing an empty house made Don think he was ready to quit betting. In 1986, he began to attend Gambler’s Anonymous meetings and convinced Dianne he was done with it all. Dianne questioned his resolve when she found a piece of paper with a list of football games one night when they were on vacation. He told her that they were old games—he didn’t gamble anymore. After minimal research, she realized the schedule was for the current season. Don controlled the family’s finances, and so, could get away with numerous tricks and sneaky behaviors that would have not only been met with disapproval by his wife but were illegal. He forged his wife’s signature to take out loans to pay off gambling debts. Don learned how to kite checks between three different checking accounts, essentially loaning himself large amounts of money interest-free by writing bad checks between the accounts, and then clearing the checks with more bad checks, and so on and so forth. Don found himself visiting one banker or another on a daily basis. “I could at least relax on the weekends when the banks were closed,” he says. Don rushed home from work daily to beat the mailman to the house in fear that his wife would see any bank statements. Eight years after his first GA meeting, Don canceled plans with a friend and got his shift covered at work covered so he could stay at a casino. When Dianne didn’t get Don’s afternoon call (which came every day like clockwork), she knew something was wrong. When Don finally called, he asked if she would mind if he cashed in another $100 check. She told him, “Do whatever you want, stay as long as you want, I don’t care.” She felt too defeated to argue it anymore. When Don came home late that night, the bedroom door was locked. He knew he had screwed up bad. Because of all the pain he had caused the family, every broken promise big or small, his daughter refused to let Don attend her graduation or her wedding. Anyone who says ‘gambling isn’t a deadly addiction’ doesn’t know this story Many gambling addict stories end with mountains of debt, broken marriages, and lost opportunities. The story of Jihad Hassan Moukalled of Farmington Hills, Michigan has a much more tragic ending than all of these things combined. H. Moukalled had amassed more than $60,000 in credit card debt and had caused his own printing company to sink deep into debt, once mentioning to a neighbor that the business was more than $500,000 under. Over the course of two years, Moukalled had been making weekly trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City to gamble large sums of money. After returning from a three-day trip one November night, Moukalled wrote out a suicide note, and placed it on the kitchen table, held down by salt and pepper shakers. The note read: “I never ever had a bad intent toward anyone. I think that I was gripped by the hope of ‘one more shot.’ I did not know how else to escape what I got myself into. It is over.” He then proceeded to suffocate each of this three children—daughter Aya, 7; son Adam, 5; and daughter Lila, 2—as they slept in their beds. Afterwards he shot his wife, and then himself. Apparently, at some point during his most recent trip, he had asked his company to deposit $85,000 into a bank account, hoping he could transfer the amount to a Vegas casino. The bank wouldn’t honor the check. Even if the bank had taken the check from a company that was already more than $500,000 in debt, it wouldn’t have covered eveb half of the $225,000 in torn-up casino markers that police found in Moukalled’s home during the investigation of this gruesome murder-suicide. Gambling Addict Stories—Admitting there is a problem Randy reaches for help with his gambling addiction “Approximately ten years ago I wrote a short story about myself entitled “The Bobber. Yes, that was me just bobbing along in all directions in the middle of an endless ocean. I kept a vigilant lookout, hoping that someone would save me by throwing me a lifeline. All those lines out there and none of them were close enough to grab onto. I was really tired after years of bobbing along and began looking forward to when I would eventually begin to sink into total emptiness. My writing cried out for help, but no one heard it… “Since being in recovery for a number of years, I’ve heard similar stories. Not knowing exactly where we were supposed to be and who we really were. Today I’ve just learned to accept that I am where I am supposed to be, one day at a time and doing the next right thing. As for those “recovery lines” … well, I found out that you actually have to swim out to get them and grab onto them. They don’t necessarily come to you. But once you grab them, never let go.” — Randy Mary resolves to come clean about her gambling addiction Mary sat in her car outside the casino, contemplating her situation, fighting the urge to go in and find a chair. Gambling had become an ‘emotional chore’ for Mary; something she felt she had to do because she knew she had to do something to try to get back all the money she had lost. Then she started to look at the bigger picture. She thought about her future: “I was so scared that I was going to end up doing this for another 20 or 30 years. I was scared that I was going to get fired from my job. I was scared that I was going to end up in jail.” As much as she wanted to, and as easy as it would have been for her to get out of her car and walk across the parking lot and into the casino, she didn’t. Mary started the engine, backed out of her parking space, and drove straight to her work. Again, she was apprehensive. Mary says, “I didn’t want to admit I was a compulsive gambler. I didn’t want to say it out loud. It’s hard to admit you’re a liar and a cheat and a thief.” But that’s exactly what she did. She told her business partner everything that had been going on. Don realizes he’s lost his family to his gambling addiction The night after coming home from his trip to the casino—after his wife told him she didn’t care what he did anymore—morning came and went, and the following night Don went back to Gambler’s Anonymous. The previous night would be the last time Don ever gambled. Gambling Addiction Stories that End with Recovery Mary gets a second chance to reclaim her life, her job, and her self-respect With the support of her company, Mary decided to attend a Gambler’s Anonymous meeting. As she looked around the room, she had a hard time believing that any of the people there had ever been compulsive gamblers, simply because they all looked so happy. She acquired a sponsor, but it soon became clear to her that she was going to need more than a few nights each week at Gambler’s Anonymous meetings to get herself back on track. Mary checked herself into a 30-day rehab program in Canton, South Dakota, which she says saved her life. In being surrounded by recovery addicts in GA and in the treatment center, Mary realized she wasn’t alone in her struggle. “I kept thinking I was something special, that my situation was unique,” Mary says. “But I wasn’t, and it wasn’t.” After completing her inpatient rehabilitation program, Mary returned home to Minnesota and continued to attend GA meetings as a part of her aftercare program. She also went to go face her old co-workers; almost immediately after coming home, Mary went to meet with her company’s board of directors. Mary was absolutely terrified. “These were people I had lied to and had manipulated…but they gave me a second chance.” Mary has slowly started to pay back what she stole from the company to prove her commitment to both her job and her recovery. After 18 months of being in recovery, Mary still attends GA meetings a couple times each week. She says having recovering people in her life helps her to stay on track because she knows she’s not alone. Vern finds help for his gambling addiction in rehab “I’m a compulsive gambler. That was difficult to admit when I attended my first GA meeting. But it was even more difficult after I had relapsed. “I had stopped gambling for more than three years when I succumbed again to the compulsion of gambling. It was at this time that I knew I needed more than a weekly GA meeting to get me on the road [to] recovery. I searched the web for places that concentrated on compulsive gambling and found Williamsville Wellness. I contacted the center, and Bob called me. With his encouragement, I applied and have never been sorry. “Apprehensive at first, I was welcomed by the staff and other compulsive gamblers throughout the four weeks I was there. Bob’s staff is incredible—top shelf all the way. They challenged me, listened to me, guided me and encouraged me to see the true inner self and the possibilities that had been hidden by my own behavioral patterns and compulsive gambling. Today I am on my road of recovery, thanks to the staff at Williamsville Wellness. What I gained there was worth the time, the financial investment, and the work to get me back on track. — Vern Don’s journey to redemption in recovery for his gambling addiction Don has been religiously attending GA meetings ever since his turnaround. Don has done a lot of work to gain back his family’s trust. He has even reconciled with his daughter, who banned him from having anything to do with her early adult life. Even 17 years into his recovery, Dianne still cringes internally when she sees Don flip through games on the television because she still remembers with clarity the days when her husband would be checking the scores of games he’d bet on. After years of GA meetings and marriage counseling, Dianne and Don have gradually repaired their relationship. Don is thankful that GA helped him to get over his gambling addiction, and overcome it at an age where he will still be able to repay his debts, and hopefully start some sort of savings account. A former gambling addict with a savings account—what a beautiful picture. Vi really a very scary story when we use borrowed money and used to play gambling in my opinion it is better to use safe money to just play it on me. 17 hours ago, Ilovestake2019 said: The only amount that I ever borrow is $20. That way it doesn't become a problem and I can easily pay it back when my check comes. If I were to get more, I would get myself in deep doodoo. What about you? I once borrowed $ 400 to play gambling with my friend and I lost and finally I was confused to return the loan money from my friend. because I have no guarantee to return my friend's money. never borrow money to play gambling if you do not want to add to the difficulty and do not want to be difficult in the end because the risk is too great if you use borrowed money to play gambling. very not recommended at all.
Xantys Posted August 20, 2019 #22 Posted August 20, 2019 I have never borrowed money for gambling and I'm sure this is a bad idea. I think this is number one sign of addiction. If you are doing this I think you should seriously review your gambling habits.
Thepug Posted August 20, 2019 #23 Posted August 20, 2019 I have never borrowed money from someone, if I ever have the intention in gambling it. If people ever ask me if they can borrow some money, they know that I am just going to say “NO”! If they really wanted money that bad and they had an “insane” strategy that could make them money, just deposit via a credit card.
Etude Posted August 21, 2019 #24 Posted August 21, 2019 Well in a logical sense, borrowing money for the purpose of gambling is a really risky activity whereby if you actually need to borrow it in the first place you may actually find it difficult to repay the borrowed amounts once lost in gambling. Well it also could be the case if you can afford to cover it then it is really a personal decision to make.
powerup1 Posted August 21, 2019 #25 Posted August 21, 2019 Avoid gambling by borrowing money from anyone, gambling does not guarantee victory. gamble with the money you are ready to lose maybe you can read this article, which is available on the Stake site at the bottom of the home page. https://www.begambleaware.org/
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